Tulsi Gabbard, Friends of the BJP Abroad and Vedic Science

Someone in the comments section expressed hope there would be a Part Two.

And, what about Shri Shim????


A delicious morsel:

The Butler's web article has a picture of what was once Butler's farm.

Here is the caption under the photo.

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North Shore Kaua'i land once used for Butler's farm, now owned by Mark Zuckerberg. (Photo taken by John Wehrheim from atop Zuckerberg's wall.

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Butler's Web: Krishna, Politics, and QNET's International Pyramid Scheme


On the financial front, a key part of the Butler group’s business network - rooted in the Down to Earth vegetarian grocery chain and Hong Kong-based QNET’s alleged international pyramid scheme – is currently being scrutinized in the Supreme Court of India.

Tulsi Gabbard associating herself with the BJP the polical party of India's current Prime Ministry, Narendra Modi. (Would Tulsi continue to associate with Friends of BJP if Modi is voted out of office and BJP suffers major losses in the polls, eh?

Some background on the BJP party in India -- and why we must BEWARE of this Friends of the BJP that Tulsi associated herself with in that Youtube video.

The chilling effect on India’s academic freedom
MOHAN J. DUTTA 22 March 2016

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The BJP party follows a historical ideology which posits such a thing as Vedic sciences -- which is compatible with Chris Butler's religion, which he in turn learned from Prabhupada. This politicised nationalist history of a Sansrkit, Vedic India has been in India for nearly a century. The BJP now has the power to implement it. Again, this crap is incompatible with American values, but is compatible with Chris Butler's religion and Tulsi Gabbard's religion.

Since 2014, Indian universities have been subject to the authoritarian impulse of the state, with the right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of Narendra Modi seeking to fundamentally transform the character of these universities, imposing unqualified administrators that are close to the party line, implicitly supporting party-affiliated student groups such as the ABVP, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) (translation: All Indian Student Council) to silence alternative voices, and deploying both violence and disproportionate punishment to silence student protest against the state’s authoritarian policies.

The ABVP has been reconfigured to establish the BJP agenda on university campuses, serving as both the mouthpiece of the BJP as well as an information source for surveilling over and controlling thought that is seen as critical of the BJP agenda dedicated to Hinduizing India. Moreover, the ABVP has been at the vortex of cooking up trouble and inciting violence across campuses in India.

These active measures of intervention into higher education taken by the Modi government have been orchestrated toward achieving the broader agenda of cleansing the universities of critical voices, instead reconfiguring universities to serve the right wing agendas of further privatization and saffronization of education.

The education agenda is being reworked, and turned toward the teaching of Sanskrit, the discoveries of Vedic science, and the reformulation of teaching as practical skills-building.

The BJP party attacks academic freedom.
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BJP fosters censorship of books by scholars who dissent from the BJP's Hindu nationalist ideology of history.

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It serves BJP's interests to foster riots. After riots more BJP candidates are elected.

BJP gains in Polls after Every Riot - Yale University/Economic Times, India

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Taken in conjunction with the main result, our secondary finding that riots reduce subsequent Congress vote shares raises the possibility of a feedback loop or multiplier effect, whereby the outbreak of Hindu-Muslim violence causes Congress to lose votes and seats, which in turn leads to more riots, and so on in a vicious cycle."

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BJP and communal violence in India

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lso heavily named in the internal letters as having served as Butler’s close personal assistants are Down to Earth CEO Mark Fergusson (Mahabhagavat das) and Sunil Khemaney (Syamasundara das). The July 1987 letter regarding Krsna Katha das was signed by Mahabhagavat das. The December 1987 letter regarding the call for disciples to do whatever necessary to ensure SIF did not “run out of cash” was signed by Syamasundara das.

Khemaney now works for Rep. Gabbard, assisting her with fundraising and relations within the Hindu American community. Khemaney traveled to India with Rep. Gabbard in December 2014, and he facilitated her appearance at an August 2014 event in Atlanta hosted by Overseas Friends of BJP,

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a group that supports India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.

At the Overseas Friends of BJP event, Rep. Gabbard described Khemaney as her “team member,” and said, “He’s been like an uncle to me since I was a child. And he didn’t have any involvement in politics until I ran for Congress, and now he cannot escape. He’s in this.”

One of the men who grew up deeply within SIF and requested protection of his identity described Khemaney as, “Butler’s ninja. His right-hand man.”

If the Friends of BJP open chapters in universities outside of India , there is a risk, based on what BJP has already done in India, that BJP groups in Western
Universities will establish goon squads to intimidate faculty members who teach
versions of Indian history that run counter to the BJP's ideology.

Wendy Doniger and scholars like her might find themselves attacked on any
campus where there is a BJP chapter.

Universities outside of India also give support, sometimes life saving support to Indian scholars whose findings are disliked by the BJP goons.